I don't know if a separate thread for on-line articles will be created; for the time being, I'll post in the team threads.An article about Charles Taylor II. (sort of odd: it's my understanding that a man is "jr" until his father dies, then he becomes "II"; the grandson is always "III." Is this wrong?)

The geniuses instructed the driver; they were sure (and wrong) the entire time. Chandra (or maybe it was Taryn) was right about Rushmore, but nobody on the team--including Drew, who was doing a Hamlet routine for the entire trip--would stand up to the geniuses.

Didn't anybody make it to this show the traditional way? I've found evidence of several teams being chosen by casting agents; the lastest team I've found is the winners, who got cast because they were protesting Victoria's Secret (there's a joke in there, somewhere ). From the Dallas Morning News:

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Getting cast on the series was pure serendipity. Mr. Goldshmid, co-chair of Students for a Better Society, was holding a campus protest. It seems Victoria's Secret uses paper made from Canadian old-growth trees for its slick catalogs, a no-no in environmentalist circles. He, Mr. Khurana and another friend, Ben Wells, were approached by a casting director in town looking for contestants.